The character of Meriwether Lewis
Subtitle: explorer in the wilderness : essays on one of the most remarkable men in American history
By: Clay S. Jenkinson
Publisher: Dakota Institute Press of the Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation; Distributed by The University of Oklahoma Press; The Dakota Institute
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washburn, N.D; [Norman, Okla.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780982559727; 9780982559734
Subjects: Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Description and travel; Lewis-and-Clark-Expedition; Psychographie; Explorers; Biography; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Meriwether Lewis : explorer in the wilderness
Description: This bold new study of the character of Meriwether Lewis attempts to make sense of one of the most fascinating and perplexing heroes of American history. Clay Jenkinson's Lewis is not a cheerful explorer in buckskins, but a complex, tightly-wound, ambitious and self-conscious man who led one of the great adventures in American history, but had severe re-entry problems and never wrote the book that would have served as the capstone of his explorations.
Notes: LC copy signed by author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 403-442) and index.
Table of contents: title: Fractured soul; title: Getting there first; title: Meriwether Lewis's bad day; title: Map; title: Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries; title: Damn you: Lewis and Clark at the confluence; title: Map; title: The character of Meriwether Lewis: Paintings by Michael Haynes; title: The problem of silence; title: Timeline; title: What a falling off was there; title: Map; title: Why?.